Even Claude says AI watermarking is no ‘silver bullet’ AI Claude has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever provide a foolproof way to identify machine-written material, just days after its maker, Anthropic, began embedding invisible marks into the chatbot’s own output. Asked by City AM whether AI-generated content should be watermarked, Claude warned that simple marks can be “cropped, screenshotted, or edited out”, while [...]
Google backs publisher model as Apple considers price tag for news Media Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, even as Apple considers a radically different model that would tie payments to how often its AI assistant uses journalism. The search giant considers itself the only major tech platform with a structured approach to paying publishers at scale, City AM understands, with licensing [...]
It’s hard to picture a more nightmarish vision of our AI future than this AI The optimistic case for AI is clear: incredible scientific breakthroughs, life-enhancing productivity gains and universal access to knowledge. What’s not to like? But items on the other side of the ledger weigh a little heavier: the erosion of jobs, the flattening of knowledge, unstoppable cyber attacks and social rupture. Elon Musk still thinks there’s a [...]
There’s a 45 per cent chance this op-ed was written by AI July 16, 2026 Emma Divers was trained to write using the technique now being flagged by AI detectors. She says the AI crackdown could become a witch hunt.
The ‘like’ button ruined social media – are we making the same mistake with AI? June 11, 2026 The ‘like’ button was a single design choice that had profoundly harmful downstream effects. AI sycophancy could be the next one, says Annabel Gillard I’ve been working on the human impact of AI in our work and lives since 2020, but City AM asked a genuinely new question that prompted this piece. Given that we [...]
OpenAI-linked shares plummet after it fails to hit growth targets April 28, 2026 Companies with financial ties to the fate of OpenAI sold off sharply on Tuesday after it emerged the ChatGPT maker had fallen short of internal targets for revenue and user growth. Shares in Japanese investment giant Softbank and data centre hyperscalers Coreweave and Oracle plunged by between four and eight per cent reigniting nerves over [...]
X outage hits as Grok scrutiny and UK regulation collide January 13, 2026 X has been hit by a widespread outage, leaving millions of its users unable to load posts, photos or entire timelines, a tech stumble that has landed at an acute moment for Elon Musk’s platform. By early afternoon on Tuesday, over 7,000 X users in both the UK and across the pond reported problems to [...]
Eurostar’s new AI chatbot left customers exposed December 22, 2025 Eurostar’s shiny new AI chatbot was billed as a smarter way of helping customers. But the bot was shipped with old-fashioned security flaws that could have left customers exposed, and for weeks, nobody at the train operator seemed willing to listen. City AM can reveal that multiple security flaws were found in Eurostar’s public-facing AI [...]
ChatGPT: OpenAI’s safety upgrade offers an illusion of care October 28, 2025 OpenAI has recently told users that its latest chatbot update aims to become a safer tool for users experiencing distress, particularly when showing signs of psychosis, mania, self-harm, and overall emotional over-reliance on AI. The company, known for its trigger of the AI boom in November 2022 and quasi-synonymous to conversational chatbots, said the changes were informed [...]
Chatbots are growing fast – but search still rules the web July 24, 2025 While chatbots like ChatGPT are seeing explosive growth, they are still a long way from overtaking traditional search engines – and Google remains firmly control of how people find information online. A recent report found that between April 2024 and March 2025, visits to AI chatbots surged by nearly 81 per cent year on year, [...]